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Kreisfreie Stadt Solingen · North Rhine-Westphalia

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Ready-made files from this server — one click, one download, uniform nationwide in EPSG:25832.

🗺️ ALKIS — Real-estate cadastre: parcels, building footprints and land use

67,413 parcels, 91,209 buildings, 25,071 land-use polygons.

Source: © Geobasis NRW · Licence dl-de/zero-2-0

⛰️ DGM1 — Digital terrain model: elevations on a 1-metre grid

121 tiles of 1 km² each (276 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.

🏙️ DOM1 — Digital surface model: unified 1-metre elevation grid including buildings and vegetation

121 tiles of 1 km² each (343 MB), 1 m grid, EPSG:25832.

Directly from the state

There is no copy of these datasets here: the tables link per tile to the server of the responsible state agency.

✈️ DOP — Digital orthophotos: current aerial imagery directly from the state agencies

121 tiles, period 2025-06-20–2025-07-02.

Show historical years individually (21)

Access	Note
Historical year 1954 (6 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 1956 (22 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 1968 (7 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 1969 (3 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 1973 (29 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 1975 (5 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 1978 (31 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 1979 (1 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 1982 (31 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 1988 (31 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 1994 (31 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 1998 (26 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 1999 (5 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 2003 (31 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 2007 (31 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 2010 (121 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 2013 (121 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 2016 (121 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 2019 (121 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 2021 (121 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency
Historical year 2023 (121 tiles, JSON)	directly from the state agency

📷 bDOM — Image-based surface model at native resolution — directly from the state agency

121 tiles, period 2025-06-20–2025-07-02.

📡 LiDAR — Raw laser-scan point clouds of the official surveys — directly from the state agency

121 tiles, period 2020-11-18–2020-12-18.

The extract is generated on click — larger districts take a few seconds.

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Land use in Kreisfreie Stadt Solingen

What the land is used for — summed from the ALKIS land-use polygons, not taken from official statistics. Shares refer to the district area of 90 km².

Use	Area	Share
Forest	23 km²	25.8 %
Residential land	19 km²	21.8 %
Agriculture	18 km²	19.8 %
Road transport	6 km²	6.8 %
Industry & commerce	5 km²	6.1 %
Sports, leisure & recreation	456 ha	5.1 %
Woodland	313 ha	3.5 %
Mixed-use area	279 ha	3.1 %
Special-purpose area	207 ha	2.3 %
Paths and tracks	125 ha	1.4 %
Water bodies	102 ha	1.1 %
Cemetery	84 ha	0.9 %
Rail transport	62 ha	0.7 %
Squares	29 ha	0.3 %
Heath, bog & marsh	22 ha	0.3 %
Wasteland & unvegetated land	22 ha	0.2 %

The data covers the district area completely. All states compared →

Terrain elevation in Kreisfreie Stadt Solingen

Calculated from the digital terrain model (DGM1): minimum, maximum and a tile-area-weighted mean of the elevations above sea level (NHN).

Metric	Elevation above sea level (NHN)
Minimum	44.0 m
Mean	160.3 m
Maximum	276.7 m

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Municipalities in Kreisfreie Stadt Solingen

• Solingen

Data as of: 2026-09-02.